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Village, Town or City: Search for museums within a particular town, city or village. Note that the search will match all names containing the search term e.g. a search for Hull will produce museums in Hull, Kingston-upon Hull and Solihull.

Postcode: Search for museums within a post-code area.

Admin Area: Search for museums by their administrative area: e.g. a country, English region, unitary authority, or county council.

Accreditation: Search for museums that are unaccredited or accredited; that is have been recognised as reaching professional benchmarks. See ‘Glossary’ for more information on accreditation.

Governance: Search for museums according to their organisational structure. See ‘Glossary’ for more information on governance.

Size: Search of museums on the basis of annual visitor numbers. Huge (1million+), Large (100,000 – 1million), Medium (10,000-100,000), Small (0-10,000). See ‘Glossary’ for more information on how size is calculated.

Subject Matter: Search for museums according to their overarching topic. See ‘Glossary’ for more information on subject matter classification.

Visitor Numbers Data: Search for museums according to their numbers of annual visitors. N.B. each record is returned as a separate result i.e. search may return multiple records for individual museums.

Year opened: Search for museums that opened in, after or before a particular year. Date ranges are used when the precise year cannot be established. See ‘Glossary’ for more information on opening dates and ranges.

Year closed: Search for museums that closed in, after or before a particular year. Date ranges are used when the precise year cannot be established. See ‘Glossary’ for more information on closing dates and ranges.

Year exists: Search for all the museums that were open in a particular year. For precise information choose the ‘definitely’ option in the drop down menu. To include museums that have a date range for their years of opening choose the ‘possibly’ option. See ‘Glossary’ for more information on date ranges.

Notes: Additional information on individual museums is logged in Notes. Use key terms to search the researcher’s notes.

Primary Provenance of Data: Search according to the original source of information on each museum. See ‘Glossary’ for more information.

Deprivation index: Search for museums according to the relative deprivation of their location with 1 being the most deprived and 10 being the least deprived. See ‘Glossary’ for more information on the Deprivation index.

Geodemographic group: Search for the museums in locations that have been categorised according to the characteristics of their population. See ‘Glossary’ for more information on Geo-demographic groups.

Geodemographic subgroup: Search for the museums in locations that have been categorised according to the characteristics of their population. (‘Sub-groups’ are categorised in more detail than ‘groups’). See ‘Glossary’ for more information on Geo-demographic groups.

ACE size designation: Search according to Art Council England categories for museum size. Only museums for which ACE holds records are included in the search.

AIM size designation: Search according to the Association of Independent Museums’ categories for museum size. Only museums for which AIM holds records are included in the search.

DOMUS Subject Matter: Search according to Digest of Museum Statistics categories for museum subject matter. These only relate to entries where the provenance is DOMUS.